J. Walter Hawkes

You don’t need to be a “jazz head” to love this stuff. This could be just the kind of music for folks who say they don’t like jazz. In a surprising Venn diagram overlap, I’m pretty sure that a lot of jazz enthusiasts will be totally down as well. Bennie’s ...

Good morning. I hope you had a wonderful Halloween weekend, and that you enjoyed your extra hour of existence that the deities of daylight savings distributed to you.

I’ll be leading a band, playing the music of Bennie Green this Thursday, Nov 5 at Bar LunÀtico in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. It’s ...

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Ever wonder how a show’s theme song is created? Here’s a nice video with footage of the actual meeting I had with the creators of Owen Nowhere, discussing the theme song. I had a lot of fun composing it, and ...

A pretty in depth podcast interview has been released on Leah Roseman’s Conversations With Musicians. Leah has a really wonderful podcast series and I’m honored to have been part of it. We go pretty deep on… well, life and career. I tell a bunch of really wacky (honest and awkward) ...

I was on the road this week… at some point late night on the van I came to the realization that I had missed the 30 year anniversary of the infamous fall over the cliff in Cabo San Lucas. (1/23/93) It kind of blows my mind how I go through ...

THIS FRIDAY! This is one of those things that kinda can only happen in NYC… The NYC Ska Orchestra is a full big band featuring members of the Skatalites and other Ska/Reggae bands. We’ll be playing favorite tunes from the tradition, as ...

Greetings fellow Earthlings.

Hey there Ms. and Mr., here’s a missive you’d miss if dismissed. It’s been a somewhat quiet summer, though I’m still playing a whole bunch. As always, keep checking out jwalterhawkes.com for the must up-to-the-minute (read: last minute) updates to the schedule.

Tonight I’ll be hitting it with Matt ...